“…They met the greatest crisis of the twentieth century not by urging collective action against tyranny but by spinning conspiracy theories, warning of race suicide, or even embracing fascism. They imagined a white nation and then constructed its enemies-not the Nazis, or even the Japanese, but the "warmongers" among their fellow citizens who wanted to resist rather than appease the aggressors. …”

“…Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times-the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11-Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. …”

“…They are the latest flashpoints in a process that has been unfolding for decades, in which vast conspiracy theories and radical ideologies such as white supremacism, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and hostility to government converge into a deadly threat to democracy. …”

“…He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House. As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities -- Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev -- who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. …”

“…Our lives are so complicated and so filled with burdens, we should be completely unsurprised if, at some point, we felt a need to pull up a white flag and ask for help with our minds. This is a guide to how to cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and unwellness, from the very mild to the more severe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.1 Introduction 179 -- 8.2 Scenario and Application 182 -- 8.2.1 Concept Definition 182 -- 8.2.2 Fog-enabled IoT Application 184 -- 8.2.3 Characteristics and Open Challenges 185 -- 8.2.4 Orchestration Requirements 187 -- 8.3 Architecture: A Software-Defined Perspective 188 -- 8.3.1 Solution Overview 188 -- 8.3.2 Software-Defined Architecture 189 -- 8.4 Orchestration 191 -- 8.4.1 Resource Filtering and Assignment 192 -- 8.4.2 Component Selection and Placement 194 -- 8.4.3 Dynamic Orchestration with Runtime QoS 195 -- 8.4.4 Systematic Data-Driven Optimization 196 -- 8.4.5 Machine-Learning for Orchestration 197 -- 8.5 Fog Simulation 198 -- 8.5.1 Overview 198 -- 8.5.2 Simulation for IoT Application in Fog 199 -- 8.5.3 Simulation for Fog Orchestration 201 -- 8.6 Early Experience 202 -- 8.6.1 Simulation-Based Orchestration 202 -- 8.6.2 Orchestration in Container-Based Systems 206 -- 8.7 Discussion 207 -- 8.8 Conclusion 208 -- Acknowledgment 208 -- References 208 -- 9 A Decentralized Adaptation System for QoS Optimization 213 /Nanxi Chen, Fan Li, Gary White, Siobh©Łn Clarke, and Yang Yang -- 9.1 Introduction 213 -- 9.2 State of the Art 217 -- 9.2.1 QoS-aware Service Composition 217 -- 9.2.2 SLA (Re-)negotiation 219 -- 9.2.3 Service Monitoring 221 -- 9.3 Fog Service Delivery Model and AdaptFog 224 -- 9.3.1 AdaptFog Architecture 224 -- 9.3.2 Service Performance Validation 227 -- 9.3.3 Runtime QoS Monitoring 232 -- 9.3.4 Fog-to-Fog Service Level Renegotiation 235 -- 9.4 Conclusion and Open Issues 240 -- References 240 -- 10 Efficient Task Scheduling for Performance Optimization 249 /Yang Yang, Shuang Zhao, Kunlun Wang, and Zening Liu -- 10.1 Introduction 249 -- 10.2 Individual Delay-minimization Task Scheduling 251 -- 10.2.1 System Model 251 -- 10.2.2 Problem Formulation 251 -- 10.2.3 POMT Algorithm 253 -- 10.3 Energy-efficient Task Scheduling 255 -- 10.3.1 Fog Computing Network 255 -- 10.3.2 Medium Access Protocol 257 -- 10.3.3 Energy Efficiency 257 -- 10.3.4 Problem Properties 258.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…14.3.1 The Wireless Channel 289 -- 14.3.2 Diversity 290 -- 14.3.3 Channel Coding 291 -- 14.3.4 Interleaving 291 -- 14.3.5 Multi-Antenna Techniques and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) 291 -- 14.4 Access Technology Concepts 295 -- 14.4.1 Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) 295 -- 14.4.2 Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) 295 -- 14.4.3 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 295 -- 14.4.4 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) 297 -- 14.4.5 MAC Protocols 299 -- 14.5 Cross-Layer Algorithms 300 -- 14.5.1 Link Adaptation 300 -- 14.5.2 Channel-Dependent Scheduling 300 -- 14.5.3 Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) and Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) 302 -- 14.6 Example Application: Satellite Broadband Access 303 -- 14.7 Summary 303 -- Further Reading 304 -- 15 WiFi: IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN 305 -- 15.1 Introduction 305 -- 15.2 Technology Basics 306 -- 15.2.1 System Overview 306 -- 15.2.2 MAC Layer 308 -- 15.2.3 Physical Layer 311 -- 15.3 Technology Evolution 312 -- 15.3.1 802.11 b 312 -- 15.3.2 802.11 a/g 313 -- 15.3.3 802.11 n 314 -- 15.3.4 802.11 ac 316 -- 15.4 WLAN Network Architecture 318 -- 15.5 TV White Space and 802.11 af 320 -- 15.6 Summary 320 -- Further Readings 321 -- 16 UMTS: W-CDMA and HSPA 323 -- 16.1 Introduction 323 -- 16.2 Technology Basics 324 -- 16.2.1 Network Architecture 324 -- 16.2.2 Protocol Architecture 325 -- 16.2.3 Physical Layer (L1) 327 -- 16.2.4 Layer-2 334 -- 16.2.5 Radio Resource Control (RRC) 336 -- 16.3 UMTS Technology Evolution 338 -- 16.3.1 Release 99 338 -- 16.3.2 Release 5: High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 339 -- 16.3.3 Release 6: Enhanced Uplink 343 -- 16.3.4 Release 7 347 -- 16.3.5 Release 8 and Beyond 348 -- 16.4 CDMA2000 350 -- 16.5 Summary 351 -- Further Readings 352 -- 17 Fourth Generation Systems: LTE and LTE-Advanced 353 -- 17.1 Introduction 353 -- 17.1.1 LTE Standardization 353 -- 17.1.2 LTE Requirements 354 -- 17.2 Release 8: The Basics of LTE 355 -- 17.2.1 Network Architecture 355 -- 17.2.2 PDN Connectivity, Bearers, and QoS Architecture 358.…”

“…This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West. …”